Abstract The paper focuses on social capital-related attitudes of members of local civic organisations, particularly of sports club members. In line with Robert Putnam’s social capital argument, three questions are addressed: (1) Do social capital-related attitudes differ between sports club members and those among the German population who do not belong to a voluntary association? (2) Following a typology of associations, the question arises to what extent social capital-related attitudes vary between members of sports clubs and members of other voluntary associations? (3) And finally, are there differences in social capital-related attitudes of sports club members between 2001 and 2017/2018? Based on representative survey data from Germany collected in 2001 and 2017/2018, the analyses buttress some, but not all of the initial assumptions: in 2001 sports club members expressed more sociable orientations and lower levels of individualism compared to non-members. In 2017/2018, however, these effects had weakened or vanished. Hardly any clues can be found in support of the notion that sports club members are ‘better democrats’ than non-members. These results are discussed against the backdrop of alleged tendencies of professionalisation and consumer-orientation in sports clubs and raise the question if the social capital-producing capacity of sports clubs has eventually attenuated.

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一起玩还是一个人打保龄球？2001年和2018年德国体育俱乐部会员和非会员的社会资本相关态度

摘要 本文关注当地公民组织成员，尤其是体育俱乐部成员的社会资本相关态度。与罗伯特·普特南 (Robert Putnam) 的社会资本论点一致，解决了三个问题： (1) 体育俱乐部成员与不属于自愿协会的德国人口之间的社会资本相关态度是否不同？(2) 根据协会的类型，问题出现在体育俱乐部成员和其他志愿协会成员之间对社会资本相关态度的差异有多大？(3) 最后，2001 年和 2017/2018 年体育俱乐部成员的社会资本相关态度是否存在差异？根据 2001 年和 2017/2018 年从德国收集的代表性调查数据，分析支持了一些（但不是全部）初始假设：2001 年，与非会员相比，体育俱乐部会员表达了更多的社交倾向和更低的个人主义水平。然而，在 2017/2018 年，这些影响已经减弱或消失。几乎找不到任何线索来支持体育俱乐部成员比非成员“更民主”的观点。这些结果是在体育俱乐部所谓的专业化和消费者导向趋势的背景下进行讨论的，并提出了体育俱乐部的社会资本生产能力是否最终减弱的问题。